Annual leave

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  • Management evaluation
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  • United Nations Appeals Tribunal
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  • Authority to appoint
  • Change of official duty station
  • Competitive examinations
  • Consideration of candidates
  • Family relationships
  • Geographical distribution
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  • Junior Professional Officers
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  • Senior review bodies and central review bodies
  • Staff in posts subject to international recruitment
  • Staff in posts subject to local recruitment
  • Staff selection system
  • Types of Appointment
  • Annual leave
  • Home leave
  • Hours of work (leave-related)
  • Night differential
  • Official holidays
  • Overtime and compensatory time off
  • Parental Leave and Family Leave
  • Rest and recuperation (leave-related)
  • Sabbatical leave programme
  • Sick leave
  • Special leave
  • Unauthorized absence
  • Classification of posts
  • Administrative leave pending investigation and the Disciplinary process
  • Disciplinary measures
  • Due process in a Disciplinary process
  • Misconduct
  • After-service Health insurance
  • Death, injury or illness attributable to service
  • Life insurance
  • Loss or damage to personal effects attributable to service
  • Medical evacuations
  • Medical insurance
  • Occupational safety and Health
  • Parental Leave and Family Leave
  • Participation in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
  • Review of Medical decisions or recommendations
  • Sick leave benefits
  • Career development
  • Learning
  • Consultants and individual contractors
  • Experts on mission
  • Fellows
  • Government provided personnel (military, police, corrections, civilian)
  • Gratis personnel
  • Informal resolution and Ombudsman
  • Interns
  • Mission subsistence allowance
  • Non-reimbursable loans of personnel services
  • One-dollar-a-year contracts
  • Participants in advisory meetings
  • Travel
  • United Nations Volunteers
  • When-actually-employed contracts
  • Danger pay
  • Dependency allowances
  • Education grant
  • Hardship allowance
  • Language allowance
  • Mobility incentive
  • Non-Family service allowance
  • Overtime and compensatory time off
  • Post adjustment
  • Recruitment incentive
  • Rental subsidy
  • Repatriation grant
  • Representation allowance
  • Salary increments
  • Salary policy
  • Special Post allowance
  • Entitlements upon Separation
  • Types of Separation
  • Field Joint Negotiation Committee
  • Joint Negotiation Committee
  • Joint Staff-Management machinery
  • Staff representatives bodies and Staff representatives
  • Staff-Management Committee
  • Travel and relocation expenses
  • Daily subsistence allowance
  • Dates, mode, route and standard of travel
  • Education grant travel
  • Excess luggage
  • Family visit travel
  • Home leave travel
  • Illness or injury during Travel on official business
  • Insurance
  • Loss of entitlement to unaccompanied shipment or relocation shipment
  • Miscellaneous Travel expenses
  • Official Travel
  • Purchase of tickets
  • Travel and relocation rest and recuperation
  • Security and evacuation related allowances
  • Travel and relocation settling-in-grant
  • Shipments and relocation grant
  • Travel and relocation terminal expenses
  • Travel and relocation transportation of decedents
  • Travel and relocation travel advances
  • Travel and relocation travel by motor vehicle
  • Travel of other personnel (non-staff)
  • Visa and Travel documents
  • Breastfeeding
  • Emergency preparedness planning
  • Flexible working arrangement
  • Hours of work
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Support to survivors and families
  • Performance of Staff
  • Transitional measures

    • Annual leave

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    Staff and Financial Regulations and Rules

    Annual leave is governed by the following Staff Regulations and Rules:

    Staff Regulation, 5.1

    Staff Rule, 5.1

    For more detailed provisions please refer to the administrative issuances related to this topic.

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